Antique & Vintage Postcards

The grand Aduana Fronteriza — the Mexican border customs house at Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua — commands the foreground of this vivid linen-era card, its distinctive French Second Empire–style mansard rooftops and arched windows reflecting the Porfirian architectural ambitions of early 20th-century Mexico. Beyond it stretches the busy commercial street, 1940s automobiles parked curbside, a neon "Calzado" shoe shop sign visible at right, and in the far background the Sierra de Juárez range fades into a painted sky. Published in El Paso, Texas by Sandoval News Service and printed in the U.S.A., this is a quintessential border-culture artifact — an American publisher documenting a Mexican subject for the tourist trade crossing the Rio Grande. The card is unused and in exceptional unposted condition.